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The README on GitHub says: > If your company is creating a closed source OAuth provider, it is strongly suggested that your company purchasing a commercial lic
by teraflop 3y ago
The README on GitHub says:
> If your company is creating a closed source OAuth provider, it is strongly suggested that your company purchasing a commercial license.
And the text in the LICENSE file is a bog-standard BSD license, which doesn't say anything about not being able to use it for commercial purposes.
So it looks like they're relying on companies paying for support, or out of goodwill (or confusion), rather than because of any legal obligation.
- c4mpute 3y agoThey are relying on holding security fixes hostage.
- v3ss0n 3y agoThat is scary..
- wongarsu 3y agoOr to avoid legal uncertainty. The bigger the company, the more willing they are to pay $1000 a year to not have to track a potential risk, no matter how small that risk is. And another $1000 for paying by invoice, so the accounting department is happy.
- 0x0000000 3y agoIt may also be a way to make financially supporting a project easier for users in corp environments -- it can be easier to get an expense through for a $1k software license than a $100 donation to an open source project or individual author.